"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
Federal Reserve Governor Randall Kroszner said Thursday that the central bank may use its legal authority to limit predatory lending. “May use”? And this only came after Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA) threatened to strip the Fed of their power to…
Bob’s post, “Ecosocialism or collapse,” got me thinking about the challenge of global climate change in a new light. In the post, he quotes Richard A. Smith on “three principles for an ecosocialist economy to save us from collapse.” These…
“Confronting the climate change crisis” details how socialism can provide answers to global warming. A radical movement against climate change can be built around demands such as these: Establish and enforce rapid mandatory reductions in CO2 emissions: real reductions, not…
Given the debacle that was the National Guard response to Hurricane Katrina, the Rand Corporation has released a quite sensible set of recommendations as to what should be done. Among them, 1) allow the National Guard to respond quickly to…
In this month’s Smithsonian Magazine, former Vice-Chairman of the National Intelligence Council Gregory F. Treverton writes about an interesting distinction between approaching a situation as a puzzle or a mystery. A puzzle is something that requires additional information to solve,…